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Title: | The Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure University Teachers’ Attitude towards Ethical Use of Information Technology for a Sustainable Education |
Authors: | Mâță, Liliana Clipa, Otilia Tzafilkou, Katerina |
Type: | Article |
Subjects: | FRASCATI::Social sciences::Educational sciences::Education, general (including: training, pedagogy,didactics) |
Keywords: | CBA factor analysis ICT ethics PLS-SEM factor analysis scale validation teachers’ ethical attitude |
Issue Date: | 4-Aug-2020 |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Source: | Sustainability |
Volume: | 12 |
Issue: | 15 |
First Page: | 6268 |
Abstract: | A self-administered measurement tool was developed and validated to provide data regarding ethical attitude of university teachers for a sustainable education. The research was based on several factors involved in forming attitudes towards the unethical information technology use. The sample: 334 Romanian teachers’ respondents who teach in the higher education system contributed to this research. A successions of factor analyses and structural equation modeling showed that a second-order model is a good fit for experimental data (χ2/df = 1.75, comparative fit index = 0.958, root mean square error of approximation = 0.045), however the partial least square (PLS-SEM) CFA approach revealed higher scores of factor loadings, implying the best fit to the model. This research suggested a structural model of ethical attitude of university teachers, composed by four factors measured by 13 indices. The results demonstrated that PLS-SEM CFA is appropriate for creating a valid structural model to measure university teachers’ ICT ethical attitude. The current research predicted a theoretical contribution to the field of ethical attitude of university teachers within a sustainable education context. |
URI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/su12156268 https://ruomo.lib.uom.gr/handle/7000/1028 |
ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
Other Identifiers: | 10.3390/su12156268 |
Appears in Collections: | Department of Economics |
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